Please allow me to share a letter I wrote last year to Bob Dunn which sums up the Edgewater Experience for this 2011 Mayoral Race. A few months later I added the idea that the Madison Golf Museum be located inside the Thiel/Peters horizontal hotel plan.
August 26, 2009
Robert Dunn
President-Hammes Company (Hand Delivered)
22 East Mifflin, Suite 800
Madison, WI 53703
Dear Mr. Dunn,
My name is Dennis Amadeus de Nure and I am the author of a plan for branding downtown Madison as Madison’s Museum Mile™, or Downtown’s MuseumMile™, for short. Please note the attached survey and one page synopsis of the plan.
The wonderful success of the plan will, in my belief system, encourage developers to build more hotel rooms to keep up with the demand created from the synergy that Madison’s Museum Mile™ manifests.
I am contacting you today with the intention to let you know some ideas that the MuseumMile™ Plan of Madison has for your project. Please note:
- I believe any discussion of a new hotel project should take place AFTER a discussion of the merits of the branding plan.
- With that said, I see a wonderful opportunity to connect your project with the Memorial Union Terrace by filling in 10 acres or so of Lake Mendota. Madison did this in-fill for Monona Terrace. (George Austin could be a big help in pushing this avenue through should he agree.)
- This new “boardwalk” is constructed with the idea of fostering a heritage tourism amphibious vehicle service like Wisconsin Dells has, i.e. “DUCKS”. Plus of course the romantic walkers between the two historic destination points. (Talk about creating a “public space”!)
- The MuseumMile™ Plan of Madison calls for an indoor water park to foster family fun. Perhaps your project can accomplish this goal too?
Thank you for your time.
Sincerely,
Dennis Amadeus de Nure
CC: George Austin, Overture Foundation
CC: dennisdeNure.com/wp
